Political Quotes

“I want to thank the gentleman from Texas for his courtesy. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to discuss something very close to me. I want to talk about stuttering. I have been a lifelong stutterer, and when I was young I experienced some very difficult times, but that is a story really for another day. More than 70 million people stutter. One in every 100 people in the world stutter. In the U.S., more than 3 million Americans stutter. You probably have a friend, a neighbor, a classmate, a coworker, or a family member who stutters. Most people do. About 5 percent of all children go through a stuttering phase that lasts 6 months or more. Some will recover by late childhood, but one out of every 100 children will be left with long-term stuttering. I would like to take this time to tell you a little bit more about stuttering, what it is and how family members and friends can help. Stuttering is a disorder where the flow of speech is broken by repetition, prolongations, or abnormal stoppages of sounds and syllables. For some people, unusual facial and body movements may happen when they try to speak. Stuttering is most likely caused by four factors: One, Genetics; Two, child development. For example, children with other speech and language problems or developmental delays are more likely to stutter; Three, the makeup of the brain. An ongoing research study by Dr.…”